About Jiajia Zhang

Zurich-based artist Jiajia Zhang (b. 1981 Hefei, China) works across photography, video, and installation. Her practice often incorporates found internet imagery to investigate how the circulation of images reshapes intimacy, authorship, and the boundaries between the personal and the public.

Jiajia Zhang convinced the jury with her project And in 2084, You Are 62, a photographic and video installation conceived as a visual letter to her own daughter, assembling present-day photographs, found media, and digital fragments into a visual inquiry into a possible Switzerland of 2084.

Across photographic constellations, lenticular images, and spatial arrangements, personal imagery meets vernacular and historical references, tracing how identities and values circulate between past, present, and future. At its centre, a mirrored video chamber layers moving images and text fragments into shifting reflections that open speculative views toward the future. Rather than focusing on grand narratives or official histories, Zhang’s installation proposes that everyday visual traces—images of care, technology, objects, and social roles—may reveal the emotional and cultural infrastructures through which a future Switzerland might take shape.

Zhang first studied architecture at ETH, Zürich, and later photography at the International Center of Photography, New York City and Art at ZHdK in Zürich. Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions at Swiss Institute New York (Upcoming), Singapore Biennale, Milieu, Bern, Cordova, Barcelona, Istituto Svizzero, Milan; Giorno Poetry Systems NY; Kunsthaus St.Gallen; Fluentum Berlin; Swiss Art Awards, Basel; FriArt, Fribourg; Kunsthaus Glarus; and Fondation d'entreprise Pernod Ricard, Paris, among others.